Provincial Party Committee

Chapter 2

Thinking of this, Wang Yiming enlightened Xiao Lin: "Brother, listen to me, don't be impulsive. Minister Yuan lost his temper at you, and he has no choice but to! Why didn't he send it to me? I am the director of the general office, so it is supposed to be him." How did he control it? Is it because I am older than you and have a higher rank than you, and I am a member of the party group? No, in front of seniors like Minister Yuan, we are all juniors, and we are criticized by his elders , It should be absolutely right! The leader criticizes you because he doesn’t treat you as an outsider. Others want the leader to criticize him, but the leader still doesn’t criticize him. Even if he does something wrong, the leader is still polite to him. , but in this way, his future will be over. I can understand your thoughts, but stop here, don't talk about this matter with anyone, put down the burden, and serve Minister Yuan well, and work hard for two more years. In [-], try to get your rank resolved before Minister Yuan retires, and try to become the deputy director of the general office or something. According to your idea, you can come back to be a secretary. I have no problem. When you want to come back, you can Come back, but Minister Yuan, how do you explain it? You broke the heart of the old man, no matter how generous he is, he will not consider your future first! In this way, you will have to stay in the office for the rest of your life and be a director .Many people are staring at your position, hoping that something will happen to you so that you can replace you. Think about it for yourself, does what I said make sense? "

After listening to Wang Yiming's enlightenment, Xiao Lin immediately understood the stakes, stood up immediately, bowed deeply to Wang Yiming and said, "Director Wang, thank you very much! I understand, you are sincere. For my own good, I will remember your words, and serve Minister Yuan well, even if he loses his temper again, I will bear it and have no complaints. I will definitely cooperate with you to do a good job."

Sure enough, before Lao Yuan officially retired, Xiao Lin was promoted to be the deputy director of the general office. Xiao Lin was 32 years old and also reached the deputy bureau level, and he was one of the youngest bureau-level cadres in the ministry.

The heads of all provinces and cities go to the ministry once or even several times every year. They are so enthusiastic that they invite them over and over again. They invite the leaders of the departments to lead the leaders of various functional departments. They must take the time to visit the following. Research and investigation are also fine, and you are welcome to come if you have something to do, even if you have nothing to do, even if you have nothing to do, even sightseeing is also welcome.As soon as you get down there, everything you need to eat, drink, and live in is all arranged for you. You can watch what you need to see and play. Local comrades are still very welcome, and would rather spend money, manage food, housing, and play with them.It turns out that all places now regard receiving visits from superior leaders as an important political task.In some places, slogans were even shouted, reception is also productivity.When assessing the political performance of local leaders, such a rule was added, how many superior leaders, especially the leaders of various central departments, were received each year.

I am tired of staying in Beijing and want to change the environment. When there is nothing to do, the leaders of various departments of the central government also like to go down to inspect and inspect.When Minister Yuan went out to inspect, Wang Yiming also served as the director of the general office. Naturally, he followed the minister wherever he went.

When Minister Yuan retired, the central government transferred a deputy secretary Tian from the Beijing Municipal Party Committee to become the new minister. Wang Yiming no longer served as the director of the general office and became a full-time deputy minister.Ranked last among the six deputy ministers, he was in charge of the work of the general office for two years, as well as poverty alleviation and development.

Taking this opportunity, Wang Yiming has been to Xijiang Province many times, but he didn't count the exact number of times.Sometimes they accompany ministers; sometimes they accompany other leaders of the Central Committee and the State Council;It's more about his own job. Before the next year's poverty alleviation and development budget, he has to go to the province for a tour.First, let's understand the use of funds allocated in the previous year, and second, listen to the opinions and suggestions of comrades in the province.Although this is just a formality, the necessary form still needs to be taken. Of course, no matter which province you go to, you will receive a high-level reception.The opinions of the comrades in the province are also consistent, that is, to find ways to get the Ministry to allocate more funds.At this time, when they saw Wang Yiming, from the governor to the deputy governor, they all said in unison: "Difficulties, difficulties, we are really in difficulties, I hope the Ministry will take care of them."

Wang Yiming traveled to more than a dozen provinces every year. Hearing what they said was "difficult", he gradually became numb.Looking at the provincial capitals in various places, they look different every year. There are high-rise buildings everywhere. The roads are getting wider and wider, the squares are getting bigger and bigger, and the landmark buildings such as grand theaters, museums and sports centers are getting more and more luxurious. .Especially the luxurious office buildings of the party and government agencies, each one is more beautiful and high-end than the last one, and even the office buildings of some county-level city governments, the scale, style, and luxury of the office buildings in Beijing, it is almost as good as the office buildings of those ministries and commissions. It's down.The luxurious star-rated hotels that receive guests are no worse than those in Beijing.There is no essential difference in food, what can be eaten in Beijing can be eaten in almost all provincial capitals.It is very normal for a cadre of Wang Yiming's level to spend a few thousand yuan on casual meals in the province.If the governor and deputy governor attend the reception and have a meal with them, there will be tens of thousands of yuan.It really echoes the jingle of the common people: "One meal, one cow; one building under the buttocks."

There are more opportunities to turn below, which also made Wang Yiming discover an important problem. He found that due to the vast territory, there is a big gap in the economic development level of various parts of our country, such as the gap between east and west, and the gap between developed areas and backward areas. With the further widening of the pace of reform and opening up, the gap has not narrowed, on the contrary, there is a trend of gradually widening.As a civil servant working in a developed area, the income is several times that of a backward area; even in the same area, due to the different departments, the income will also vary greatly.For example, in those state-owned enterprises directly under the central government and monopoly industries, the income of an ordinary employee is several times or even ten times that of ordinary employees in other industries.But for officials, the situation is different.Even in the poorest provinces, their provincial and ministerial leaders are not inferior to those of the central government.Everyone rides an Audi. You have an eight-cylinder car, so do mine; you have an eight-cylinder luxury off-road vehicle, so do mine.The so-called leader cannot be poor no matter how poor he is. A province of this size is not short of that much money.

A large province with tens of millions of people and an annual fiscal revenue of at least 500 billion yuan has supported dozens of provincial and ministerial-level cadres. Of course, it is not short of money.But when it comes to specific poverty alleviation and development, most provinces are indeed short of money.Especially economically underdeveloped provinces like Xijiang Province are even poorer.

One year, Wang Yiming went to Xijiang Province to do research. He was accompanied by Deputy Governor Hu, who was in charge of agriculture and poverty alleviation and development.After asking, I found out that Deputy Governor Hu was originally from the army, and he was transferred from a teacher's position to a cadre. He started as a district deputy commissioner and worked as a prefectural party secretary. He was just promoted a few years ago and became the deputy governor.

Because the previous few visits were all to visit the places with good conditions in Xijiang Province, this time Wang Yiming proposed to take a look at the poorest places in Xijiang, especially the ethnic minorities living in the mountains.Vice Governor Hu also wanted to get more funds from the ministry, so he agreed to personally accompany Wang Yiming to a minority autonomous county.

From the provincial capital to the autonomous county of ethnic minorities, it takes more than six hours for an off-road vehicle to travel. The closer to the county town, the worse the road conditions, especially in the last forty to fifty kilometers. The car is almost walking on the edge of a cliff. On the road, crawling slowly, at a speed of ten or twenty kilometers per hour, this is the so-called Panshan Highway.The car walked for a long time, but it was still spinning on the mountainside.Looking out through the car window, there are endless mountains in the distance. On the mountainside is a winding mountain road. From a distance, it looks like a curved white line.Deputy Governor Hu pointed to the distance and said to Wang Yiming: "Brother, it wasn't that you suggested that we must go to the most difficult place to see, and I would never come. I have been in charge of this work for three years, and I am here I visited twice. Once with the secretary and once with the governor, both when the new provincial party committee just took office. The roads in this place are too difficult to walk. Currently, there is only this winding mountain road in and out of the county, which was still in the 50s At the time of Yuejin, an old road was built by cutting open mountains and blasting rocks. It is said that dozens of people died when this road was built, and an average of two kilometers was one life. The provincial traffic department had already planned another road, but Due to the large investment, the construction of tunnels and bridges requires 500 to 40 million yuan. The province is currently short of funds, so it has been put on hold. There is no choice but to maintain this road first and try to make more arrangements. The traffic police are on duty and do everything possible to reduce the occurrence of road safety accidents. However, due to the harsh natural environment, especially in winter, when there is heavy snow, heavy rain, or heavy fog, there are constant traffic accidents here. A few people died on this road. Look, the mountain stream below is usually three to five hundred meters deep. As long as the car overturns, the people on it will definitely die. A few years ago, there was a car that took migrant workers home for the New Year. Due to overloading, when the car was meeting, I couldn’t dodge it. I rolled over into the ravine, and people and the car rolled down. The body of the car fell apart, and many people were thrown out from the broken car. When the search and rescue personnel arrived At that time, I climbed into the ravine along the rope. The scene was simply horrible. At that time, I was working as the secretary of the municipal party committee of a city below. , On the trees, in the grass, there are human organs and corpses scattered everywhere. More than [-] people died in one accident, which was a serious safety accident that caused a sensation in the whole country at that time. For this reason, the then governor was punished by the State Council.”

Listening to him talking, Wang Yiming looked down through the car window. Indeed, the car he was sitting in was walking on the edge of the cliff. When he looked down, he could see at a glance that the deep ditch below was hundreds of meters long. Deep, like looking down from a skyscraper, it makes people feel dizzy.Wang Yiming quickly turned his head and looked out of the window.But what surprised him was that he clearly saw rows of houses in the ravine, which meant that there were people living there.He asked Vice Governor Hu why those ordinary people lived in the valley.

Vice Governor Hu told him with a smile that those ordinary people did not live in the valley, but on the mountainside.Our car is walking in this big mountain, climbing over mountains and ridges. After a while, when we reach the flat ground, you will understand that they actually live in mid-air, and you can grab a handful of white clouds with your hands.

More than half an hour later, after turning over the mountain, the car was driving by a small river. Wang Yiming saw that there were wooden buildings built on the mountain in the distance. Along the mountainside, you could see a few people wearing clothes Men, women and children in national costumes, carrying baskets on their backs, are struggling to crawl along the trails in the mountains.Wang Yiming was born in Pingyuan, had never seen such a sight before, and was very curious, so he proposed to stop the car and come down to have a look.

The driver stopped the car, Wang Yiming opened the car door, jumped down, stood by the small river, listened to the sound of rushing water under his feet, looked up, and saw that the mountainside and the top of the mountain in the distance were reclaimed by the mountain people. Their house was built on the only flat land, with a [-]-meter-deep ravine at their feet, and gurgling water underneath. If they were confused at night and accidentally went to the toilet, they would turn down a deep ditch hundreds of meters deep. Instant death.Beside the wooden building is indeed surrounded by white clouds, like a picture scroll.

The scenery is good, but it is really too dangerous.Once strong winds and heavy rains occur, causing flash floods or mudslides, the consequences will be disastrous.Unexpectedly, it has been more than 50 years since Liberation, and some people still live in such a place.

Wang Yiming asked Vice Governor Hu, why do they want to live in the mountains?

Vice Governor Hu said that it is a problem left over from history.These are ethnic minorities. In the past, they could not beat the Han people. The Han people occupied the plains below the mountain, so they had no choice but to go up the mountain. Over time, it became their unique living habits, and they were unwilling to let them come down.In recent years, the government has also begun to build contiguous ethnic minority residential areas in the plains, with the government providing the bulk and the mountain residents the small ones. The purpose is to allow them to come down from the mountains and live more conveniently.Most of the mountain people have responded to the government's call and have come down from the mountain, but there are still a small number of them, who are used to staying on the mountain and living a free life, have not come down.This group of people is very troublesome, especially when encountering natural disasters, the roads are interrupted, and it is very difficult to rescue.Besides, you know the situation in our province. There are many poor people. There are still more than 300 million people in the province who are below the poverty line, and they cannot be fully rescued yet.The government is also powerless!

Wang Yiming asked: "At present, what standard is the poverty line set in our province?"

Vice Governor Hu gave Wang Yiming an embarrassed look, and said, "To tell you the truth, my brother, our standards are relatively low. We are a backward area, and naturally there are some differences from the developed areas in the east. According to the figures we reported to the State Council, we plan to The established poverty line means that those whose annual per capita income is less than 750 yuan are considered poor. Even according to this standard, we still have 300 million people. If the standard is raised to 1000 yuan per capita, our numbers will be even worse. A conservative estimate would be 700 million people."

Wang Yiming was shocked when he heard this. He knew that what Vice Governor Hu said was the "absolutely poor population" in our propaganda media. This concept was jointly proposed by Wang Yiming and other departments of the country. The UN's standards for the poor are distinguished, which is good for external publicity.Wang Yiming, who is engaged in specific work, knows that if the poverty line standard set by the United Nations for underdeveloped countries in the world is strictly followed, and the per capita annual income is less than 365 US dollars, then our poor population in China will not be as announced by the relevant departments. 2700 million people, maybe the number has to be expanded tenfold, to more than 2 million people.In that case, the face of Chinese officials will be thrown into the Pacific Ocean.Anyway, foreigners are stupid, and they don't understand the specific meanings of our proper terms. They are confused and think that our poor population has decreased in this way.After all, there are still a small number of foreigners who seriously study China's issues.

On the following day, Wang Yiming climbed the mountain himself, went to the homes of more than a dozen villagers, and looked at their living conditions.The folks here are very simple and honest, and it is rare to see outsiders on weekdays, especially when I heard that Wang Yiming came from Beijing, I was even more happy.

Holding the rough hands of fellow villagers, Wang Yiming looked at their simple faces, their bent waists and high arched backs from long-term trekking, and felt mixed feelings in his heart.It has been so many years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the city is full of high-rise buildings. The buildings in Beijing and Shanghai are no worse than those in London and New York. The living standards of the people in the cities have also improved a lot. In the depths, there are still so many people living in a primitive state. Many of them have never walked out of the mountains in their entire lives. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset, just like their ancestors, living a life repeatedly. Another life.There is no change, no progress, and I don't know if this life is a tragedy or a comedy.

Wang Yiming asked the local leaders: "Is there still no electricity in the mountains?"

The local mayor said: "It is still impossible for these villagers living scattered on the mountain. The cost is too high. Each household is connected to a telegraph pole, and there are hundreds of meters in between. The terrain is complicated. Method."

Wang Yiming sighed and said: "It seems that to solve the problem of watching TV in the villagers, we still need to mobilize everyone to go down the mountain and live together. The government will provide more money and build a higher standard to attract everyone to go down the mountain."

Vice Governor Hu said: "Yes, yes, I hope that the Ministry will give us more policies, increase support, and provide more funds. On behalf of these fellow villagers, I would like to express my gratitude!"

After speaking, everyone clapped their hands and laughed.

After returning from Xijiang Province, Wang Yiming specially reported what he saw and heard in Xijiang Province to Minister Tian in detail at the ministerial meeting.When it came to the emotional part, Wang Yiming's eyes were moist, and his lips trembled involuntarily. He tried to suppress it, but his voice still choked up. He had no choice but to stop and wipe his eyes with a tissue. This was the first time in Wang Yiming's life He lost his composure on such a public occasion as a ministerial meeting.

Of course, his actions also affected all the people present. Minister Tian spoke highly of his actions. He said: "Like Vice Minister Wang, if you go down to investigate, the results you get are the real results. True value. This is the style that ministries and agencies should have. When we go down, we must have true feelings for the working people, and we must understand the actual problems, so that the questions we raise, opinions and suggestions we put forward, It has practical significance for the leaders of the State Council. The policies we formulate are more targeted. All must be vigorously investigated and researched, and go to the front line and the most difficult places to obtain first-hand information. Be a good staff and assistant for the macro-decision-making of the leaders of the Ministry."

Of course, the effect is not the same if the leaders pay attention to it. With the approval of Minister Tian, ​​when formulating the budget for poverty alleviation and development funds for the next year, the amount of funds for Xijiang Province has increased by 2000 million yuan compared with the previous year.

(End of this chapter)